https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/ten-states-will-get-no-child-l/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/ten-states-will-get-no-child-l/#comment-490972 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/09/ten-states-will-get-no-child-l/#comment-490972 How do we know that an alternative is “as good or better”? This stinks of typical political newspeak – and yet it is probably inevitable. On the other hand the “No Child’s Behind Left” is just so ghastly it takes some imagination to make things worse.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/09/ten-states-will-get-no-child-l/#comment-490971 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/09/ten-states-will-get-no-child-l/#comment-490971 As a Tennessean, I donâ??t believe we should be excused from the national standards of No Child Left Behind. It is simply embarrassing that our new maverick Governor has gained this exemption because our state has failed to raise the bar on education to be one of the 80% of state which lived up the national bar. Bill Haslam is passing a slew of laws in our state to infringe on Civil Liberties and First Amendment Rights with the Donâ??t Say Gay bill affecting schools and making it Illegal to post offensive images to the internet. As an artist, I was compelled to react to Billâ??s railroading of the Constitution and ignorance of standards set forth by our Government. You can see my portrait of our Governor which shows another side of his politics at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/07/potentially-offensive-portrait-governor.html

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